Novell Client for Windows Forgotten Password Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Novell Client for Windows Forgotten Password Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Novell Client for Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability because it fails to adequately bounds-check user-supplied input.

An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Successfully exploiting this issue may result in the complete compromise of affected computers.

Novell Client for Windows 4.91 SP4 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.